The first table below looks at the demand for LAMP skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LAMP over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl PHP Python)
Rank 44 52 49
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Permanent jobs citing LAMP 47 31 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 5.669% 4.247% 4.223%
As % of the Application Development category 9.109% 6.920% 7.612%
Number of salaries quoted 45 28 22
Average salary £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% +1.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,400 £22,500 £17,300
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £36,500 £44,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Application Development
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
516 448 289
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 62.24% 61.37% 55.47%
Number of salaries quoted 469 398 276
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LAMP
East Sussex

LAMP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Brighton LAMP Jobs Demand Trend

LAMP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LAMP across the Brighton region.

Brighton LAMP Salary Trend

LAMP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LAMP across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Brighton LAMP Salary Histogram

LAMP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing LAMP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP.

1 87 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (80.46%) JavaScript
2 70 (80.46%) MySQL
2 70 (80.46%) CSS
3 58 (66.67%) jQuery
4 57 (65.52%) HTML
5 44 (50.57%) MVC
6 37 (42.53%) OOP
6 37 (42.53%) OO
7 32 (36.78%) Linux
8 29 (33.33%) CMS
9 26 (29.89%) Zend
9 26 (29.89%) HTML5
10 21 (24.14%) Ruby
10 21 (24.14%) Cloud Computing
10 21 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
10 21 (24.14%) GitHub
11 17 (19.54%) Web Development
12 16 (18.39%) XML
12 16 (18.39%) Git (software)
13 13 (14.94%) Product Marketing
13 13 (14.94%) Project Management
13 13 (14.94%) QA
13 13 (14.94%) Agile Software Development
13 13 (14.94%) Marketing
14 12 (13.79%) Magento
15 11 (12.64%) CSS3
15 11 (12.64%) Moodle
15 11 (12.64%) XHR
15 11 (12.64%) PHP5

LAMP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing LAMP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LAMP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 70 (80.46%) CSS
2 58 (66.67%) jQuery
3 57 (65.52%) HTML
4 26 (29.89%) HTML5
5 16 (18.39%) XML
6 11 (12.64%) XHTML
6 11 (12.64%) JSON
6 11 (12.64%) CSS3
6 11 (12.64%) XHR
7 8 (9.195%) WAMP
8 3 (3.448%) Symfony
9 2 (2.299%) CakePHP
9 2 (2.299%) Node.js
9 2 (2.299%) Backbone.js
10 1 (1.149%) Underscore.js
10 1 (1.149%) REST
10 1 (1.149%) SOAP
10 1 (1.149%) Zend Framework
10 1 (1.149%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 29 (33.33%) CMS
2 12 (13.79%) Magento
3 11 (12.64%) Moodle
4 4 (4.598%) Joomla!
4 4 (4.598%) Drupal
4 4 (4.598%) WordPress
5 1 (1.149%) ExpressionEngine
Business Applications
1 2 (2.299%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.897%) VoIP
2 1 (1.149%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (80.46%) MySQL
2 8 (9.195%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.598%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.448%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.149%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (24.14%) GitHub
2 16 (18.39%) Git (software)
3 8 (9.195%) Eclipse
3 8 (9.195%) NetBeans
3 8 (9.195%) Subversion
General
1 13 (14.94%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 67 (77.01%) Developer
2 54 (62.07%) PHP Developer
3 32 (36.78%) LAMP Developer
4 22 (25.29%) PHP Programmer
4 22 (25.29%) Programmer
5 21 (24.14%) Web Programmer
6 13 (14.94%) Development Manager
7 12 (13.79%) Web Developer
8 11 (12.64%) PHP MySQL Developer
9 6 (6.897%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (6.897%) Administrator
9 6 (6.897%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 6 (6.897%) Linux Administrator
10 5 (5.747%) PHP Web Developer
10 5 (5.747%) Web Applications Developer
10 5 (5.747%) Applications Developer
10 5 (5.747%) PHP Development Manager
11 4 (4.598%) Front-End Developer
12 3 (3.448%) PHP Joomla! Developer
12 3 (3.448%) Junior PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.14%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (6.897%) Social Media
3 3 (3.448%) Blog
3 3 (3.448%) Open Source
4 1 (1.149%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.149%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 32 (36.78%) Linux
2 8 (9.195%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) MVC
2 37 (42.53%) OOP
2 37 (42.53%) OO
3 21 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
4 17 (19.54%) Web Development
5 13 (14.94%) Product Marketing
5 13 (14.94%) Project Management
5 13 (14.94%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (10.34%) SEO
7 6 (6.897%) Configuration Management
7 6 (6.897%) Load Balancing
7 6 (6.897%) Penetration Testing
8 5 (5.747%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (5.747%) Web Application Development
8 5 (5.747%) Analytics
9 4 (4.598%) Web Design
9 4 (4.598%) Responsive Web Design
10 3 (3.448%) E-Commerce
11 2 (2.299%) TDD
11 2 (2.299%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 87 (100.00%) PHP
2 70 (80.46%) JavaScript
3 21 (24.14%) Ruby
4 11 (12.64%) PHP5
5 8 (9.195%) Python
6 6 (6.897%) Shell Script
6 6 (6.897%) Perl
6 6 (6.897%) Bash shell
7 1 (1.149%) SQL
7 1 (1.149%) PHP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.94%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (6.897%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (29.89%) Zend
2 2 (2.299%) Google